Galchin Vasili <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

>     1) Regarding "stuct store_class", is the idea to provide
>             different store personalities, e.g. gunzip, stripe, part, etc?

Yes.  The list of currently supported types is in <hurd/hurd_types.h>;
see the STORAGE_* macros.

>     2) It seems that we have an upper layer API (store_create,
>           store_free, store_open, store_write) that provides the
>           notion of a storage device. Then by defining an
>           instance of "struct store_class", I can define a 
>           specific type of storage device. Is this pretty much the
>           case?

Yes.

>    3) With kids.c, can individual "kids" be different kinds of
>          store, e.g. one stripe, another part? (I am not
>          saying this particularly makes sense)

Yes, there is no reason all the child stores need to be the same type.

Thomas

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